In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.

The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.

Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.